All done. I have had the Holter Monitor removed and so all my testing is complete, for now. All that remains is for me to meet the Doctor and get an idea of what the tests have revealed, if anything. Luckily I won't have to wait long since my appointment with Dr Stobie is tomorrow afternoon. Needless to say I am really looking forward to it, I can't wait to find out what is happening and if there are any answers to be had. The past few weeks haven't been all that much fun and a more than a little stressful, however, I am hoping that an end may finally be in sight. Time will tell.
This morning I was a little restricted in what I could do in terms of training. It wasn't that I couldn't train, in fact I was encouraged too since the idea of the Holter Monitor is to track your heart rhythms over the course of a normal day (including training). No, the restriction wasn't due to medical instruction, but more because it can be a bit hard training with a bunch of wires strapped to your chest.
The Holter Monitor is not water proof, so swimming was out of the question. I probably could have gone for a run, but I wasn't keen with so much extra baggage. That left cycling, which I have previously found works well, particularly on the trainer where the extra wires etc aren't in the way so much. So that is where I was this morning.
For this morning's session on the Kickr I was doing a bit of low cadence strength work. I was trying to keep the session a balance of not too easy, not too hard and I find the low cadence work fits that criterion fairly well. The reason for the balancing act was that I didn't want to push the intensity too high, for obvious reasons, but I did want to give the heart a workout so that I could give the Doctor a good idea of what my heart does under load. With that in mind I gave myself a target heart rate 140 bpm or a bit below. I think it worked pretty well, 140 bpm seemed to fit the goal of not too hard, but not too easy.
As has been the case with my last few rides, the riding bit felt pretty okay. The average power was another step in the right direction and the riding felt nice and controlled. I was certainly aware of my heart sitting in wonky rhythms, but they weren't causing me too much discomfort. From the out of rhythm beats I was feeling though I am hoping that the Holter Monitor results will show some interesting results once they are analysed. Nothing worse than going to the trouble of having tests done only for your body to behave itself on the day. I don't think that will be the case this time. I guess I will find that out tomorrow.
With all that done and tidied away, all that is left to do is wait until tomorrow. As I said above, I really can't wait until tomorrow afternoon when I can hopefully get some answers. So much of what I do has been in question for the past few weeks and the uncertainty is taking its toll. I am not expecting everything to be sorted and resolved tomorrow, I am not that unrealistic, but I am hoping that tomorrow will be a first step in that direction.
Stay tuned.
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